Farinaz Aryanfar

Single stories

2009-10-25T13:48:00.001+01:00

Chimamanda Adichie

Hoe gevaarlijk is Iran

2009-10-02T16:07:00.000+02:00

Interview met Thomas Erdbrink, correspondent NRC-handelsblad

Ahmadinejad getting ready for UN General Assembly

2009-09-22T22:28:00.005+02:00

PS. I just got this article of the Volkskrant. Well what can I say? I love my colleagues at the Iran Committee.

A painting from Iran

2009-09-21T20:19:00.002+02:00

A kid's painting in Iran about International Al-Qods day.....

"Where is My Vote" stamps in The Netherlands

2009-09-18T01:00:00.007+02:00

Photo by Payam F

For more info, check: http://sites.google.com/site/whereismyvoteproject/home/postcards-and-stamps

P.S.

Maybe a little explanation is needed after all.

The idea of this campaign, was a smart one so I put it here. The thing is that you can upload the "where is my vote" design on a bunch of stamps through the web site tnt.nl (Dutch post office) and then send your letters with them. The more people do this, the more people get this stamp on their received-letters.

That's all :)

Welcome to Iran; a lying society

2009-09-15T21:22:00.003+02:00

Movie: About Elly
An interview with Golshifteh Farahani by toutlecine

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Movie: My Tehran For Sale

Iranian Post-modern Artists in exhile

2009-09-10T18:26:00.001+02:00

My office

2009-08-27T14:07:00.000+02:00

I have my own first official office in my carrier.

Tilburg University

Office room C 158

University councillor, party Aryanfar

+31 (0) 13 466 3617

Modern Islam

2009-08-01T21:59:00.003+02:00

Women praying besides men, not behind them...

I Love this picture...

Iran's Protests

2009-07-09T17:49:00.004+02:00

slogan: "death to the dictator"

I am not in a state to type much or even move much, but I just had to put this here.
This is a video of today (July 9th) evening in Iran. Protests are rising up again, at least for today.
You can read more here (New York Times)

Mousavi, Not worth it!

2009-06-22T18:02:00.013+02:00

I just read Mousavi’s 5th statement and I need to throw up.

In his statement he goes on and on about how “during this 30 years of the Islamic Republic and especially during Khomeini’s life, Khomeini's bright conscience, invested so much through our lives, properties and our honor and established this beautiful sculpture [ie. the Islamic system]. We experienced a holy bright time which never before was experienced by our society.” (...)
“I had come to once again, invite [all] to the way the Islamic revolution was and the way the Islamic republic should be. (…) and now the generation which was convicted to be distant from the bases of Islam, is shouting ‘nasre-men allah va fathel gharib’ [arabic for ‘the victory of God will conquer anything’. arabic is the language of the Islam as Hebrew is the language of classic bible and Greek the language of bible's new testament] and ‘ya Hosein’ [arabic for ‘Oh Hosein’ = Shiite`s third imam] and the name of Khomeini (…).”
The story goes on and gets worse. I just tried to give a taste of it but what the hell is he talking about? Which holy time? Is he talking about the war time and how Khomeini kept on “investing by people’s lives” and didn’t get into the negotiations to stop the damn thing, or is he talking about his own period of governance in which thousands of dissidents were murdered? In his statement he writes (as in his election speeches) that by becoming a president he wanted to take the Iranian society BACK to those “holy” times.

I don’t have much time to go on about this but I wonder whether the Iranians who are on the street getting shot and killed, are doing so for Mousavi. And if so, is he really worth it?
He is not going to give me what I want, and I wish he is not what the Iranians want, ‘cause if the Islamic Republic persists after all these deaths, I will totally give up my Iranianhood!

PS. There is a hot debate going on, about this article on my facebook page. For those who want to participate you can just add me in facebook and join the debate. It is amazing how people from all over the world are contributing...

How to help a bullet wound

2009-06-20T11:37:00.001+02:00

پرستاری و زنده نگه داشتن مجروحین تیر خورده

نکات کلی و مهم

1- خونسردی خود را حفظ کنید، مهمترین چیز حفظ خونسری است

2- به مجروح آب و مایعات ندهید. آشامیدن مایعات باعث افزایش خونریزی می شود

3- به هیچ وجه سعی در خارج کردن گلوله نکنید

4- دستکاری محل زخم خونریزی را شدید و باعث عفونت می شود. تا فراهم شدن یک پارجه یا باند برای بستن زخم با فشار مستقیم روی محل ضایعه می توانید از خونریزی جلوگیری کنید

5- با یک باند یا پارچه تمیز روی زخم را ببندید (خیلی سفت نبندید که جلوی رسیدن خون به انتهای اندام را گرفته و انتهای اندام کبود شود). اگر خونریزی با بانداژ اولیه بند نیامد، روی همان بانداژ اقدام به بستن یک بانداژ دیگر کنید

5- تا جای ممکن از تماس خاک با محل زخم پرهیز کنید

6- مصدوم را در محلی گرم و دور از نور مستقیم خورشید نگه دارید

7- در صورت سرگیجه و یا گیجی شخص مصدوم، سر مصدوم را پایین تر از بدن قرار دهید تا به مغز خون کافی برسد

تیر خوردن دست و پا

خونرسانی به محل اصابت گلوله را تا حد ممکن مسدود نمایید، اما تا حدی که خون رسانی به طور کامل قطع نشود

اگر جراحت خیلی شدید است هر یک ساعت ، حدود 5-10 دقیقه مسیر خونرسانی را باز کنید، سپس مجددا ببندید

جسم خارجی فرو رفته در بدن مثل چاقو

هیچ گاه اقدام به خارج کردن شئی نکنید چون باعث خونریزی و مرگ بیمار می شود.با پانسمان چاقو را در بدن ثابت کرده فرد را سریعا به بیمارستان برسانید

تیر خوردن به ستون فقرات :کمر و گردن

عضو مصدوم را توسط کیسه شن (یا هر چیزی شبیه آن) ثابت نگه دارید که باعث صدمات نخاعی نشود. برای بستن کیسه شن دور عضو مصدوم از کمربند، طناب یا پارچه می توانید استفاده کنید. در حمل مصدوم نهایت دقت را نمایید که کمترین حرکت به بدن او داده شود

تیر خوردن به قفسه سینه

در صورت اصابت گلوله به سینه ، ریه هوا کشیده ، خون وارد ریه شده و باعث خفگی شده و مصدوم در عرض 1 تا 2 دقیقه جان می بازد (Sucking wound)

1- لباس را از روی زخم کنار بزنید. اگر لباس به داخل زخم فرو رفته نمی خواهد آن را از زخم بیرون بکشید

2- با دست روی محل ضایعه فشار وارد کنید: می توانید دست مصدوم را روی زخم بگذارید

3- یک پارچه یا گاز یا باند را کاملا به وازلین، کرم یا روغن آغشته کرده و روی زخم فشار دهید تا جایی که هوا نکشد. می توان از یک تکه نایلون یا فویل تمیز هم استفاده کرد =>>این تکه باند یا نایلون باید حداقل 4-5 سانتی متر از طرفین زخم بزرگتر باشد

4- برای محکم کردن این پانسمان میتوانید ازهر نوع چسب نواری استفاده کنید. سه طرف پانسمان را به خوبی روی بدن بیمار با چسب فیکس کنید و یک طرف زا آزاد بگذارید. اگر چسب در اختیار ندارید بعد از گذاشتن باند آغشته به وازلین روی محل را با باندپیچ کنید

- اگر گلوله از یک طرف وارد و از طرف دیگر بدن خارج شده باید آن طرف را هم کاملا بپوشانید

سپس مصدوم را به بغل و سمتی که تیر خورده بخوابانید و یا حمل کنید

صدمات داخلی در اثر ضربه: مثلا ضربه باتوم یا چماق

صدمات داخلی در اثر ضربه ممکن است منجر به خونریزی داخلی در اثر پارگی اندامهای داخلی بدن مثل کبد و طحال شود.

صدمات داخلی به علت عدم وجود خونریزی واضح دیر تشخیص و درمان شده باعث مرگ و میر فراوان می شود. در این مواقع علائمی مثل درد شدید بخصوص در لمس محل ضایعه، سفت و سخت شدن عضلات شکم، بالا آوردن خون، سرفه خونی و در موارد شدید با علائم کاهش شدید فشار خون مثل سرگیجه تاری دید و شوک تظاهر می کند

در این مواقع بیمار را خوابانده در صورت امکان پاها را بالا بگیرید. هیچ آب و یا غذا به بیمار ندهید. بیمار را گرم نگه داشته و سریعا به بیمارستان برسانید

ضربه به سر و صورت
در صورت وجود علائم زیر احتمال ضربه مغزی بالاست و مصدوم را به بیمارستان برسانید

خونیزی از هر محلی از سر و صورت، بینی، گوش

سردرد، سرگیجه تهوع و استفراغ

کبودی دور چشم و کبودی پشت گوش

در صورت مواجهه با ضربه حاد به سروصورت اولین اقدام اطمینان از این است که مصدوم می تواند نفس بکشد. اگر جسم خارجی (آدامس؛ دندان مصنوعی و ...) در دهان بیمار هست خارج شود. سپس جلوگیری از خونریزی در قدم بعدی و جلوگیری از ورود خون به راه هوایی و انسداد آن مد نظر قرار گیرد.

Ahmadinejad in Russia a couple of days ago

2009-06-18T23:48:00.003+02:00

Sorry I just couldn't back off.
This is just too much fun to miss. It made my day. I wonder why everyone wants to get rid of Ahmadinejad. He is a funny clown!!

No true leader figure for Iran...

2009-06-17T16:47:00.009+02:00

A couple of days ago, I was talking to one of my very good friends who is an Iranian PhD student here in the Netherlands. We were talking about Reza Pahlavi, the son of shah of Iran.
This friend of mine told me that Reza is not really interested in Iran, he is just acting so. I couldn’t agree with him. As I had some direct contacts with Mr. Pahlavi, I had a taste of how he thinks and I could not think that he does not want to go back to Iran.
My friend insisted that “even if there would be a chance for Mr. Pahlavi to go to Iran to rule, do you really think that he would do so? I think he is just making money and popularity out of this whole thing. How could he ever leave his wealthy and modern lifestyle here and go back to an underdeveloped country. Why would he want to rule such a chaotic mess, taking visits to poor dampy villages in Khouzestan? I don't think so. He is having too much fun and I would too if my father took that much money with him out of the country”.

My counter argument was that “he does not do this for money. The man was raised for 18 years believing he would be Iran’s ruler one day, but one day all his goals were vanished. But not quite so because he tried to get back to that dream, working with so many dissidents. The only thing is that he is not a strong man to lead. He was raised to become a SHAH, not a FIGHTER. He has no clue, even after 30 years, how to fight a theocratic regime. He only knows how to give speeches and give orders. I have followed him closely even at a time when I had contacts with him in an indirect way. He became depressed after he tried to gather some young dissidents outside Iran to work with him as ‘the group of Iran’s leaders’ and it didn’t work out. He was so depressed after hearing the disasters happening in that group that he took the next flight to some country (I can’t remember whether it was Switzerland or some other country) far from Washington DC to take his mind off his loss. He really does care but if he was a leader he should have gone to Iran now. Now, that there are protests there. He will either be poisoned or killed or not. Either way, that is the way a true dissident fights.”

Today I received a fake press release in Farsi supposedly from Reza Pahlavi announcing he would go to Iran, dated 15th June, 2009.
“I have made a historic decision, and because of my national duty and conscience, I will be there among my fellow countrymen inside Iran, in 48 hours.”
I was shocked! Could I have been wrong about him after all?
I wasn’t sure whether this was true or not so I checked his official web site. And no, it wasn’t true. No sign of anything more than some messages and statements…
Yesterday I was at someone’s house where they have Iran’s satellite-tv. As hospitable Iranians are, they gave me the remote control to watch the channel I prefer. Well, I don’t really like Iranian expat’s tv. They are really unprofessional but still I switched from one channel to another respectfully.
I found a Marxist channel by chance. The man on the screen was showing some pictures and urging Iranians to hold some of the TRUE leaders who have fought for THEIR freedom for years!!!!
My eyeballs were jumping out. UNBELIEVABLE! How does he dare?

I think it is a shame that Iranians have no better leader figure than a pro Islamic Republican, Mousavi. Such a shame...

Iran rallies, my opinion?!

2009-06-16T19:11:00.004+02:00

The reason I am not writing my opinion about the protests happening in Iran is first: there are enough people analyzing the situation. Both those who have no clue and those who are really involved... The variation is so colorful that there is no need for me to add another.

Second: I am too busy giving interviews on the situation in Iran and also taking exams!!

But if you believe that every person is unique and you troubled yourself to know my opinion "per se", then you can read the Dutch national newspapers like Spits or any local Dutch newspaper.
I will also give tv interviews. (see todays 19:30 rtl4 nieuws from minute 7:43)

Petitie, teken hem aub

2009-06-16T09:38:00.002+02:00

Een petitie om de Iraanse protesten te steunen door Minister Verhagen van buitenlandse zaken te vragen om

Ahmadinejad op basis van deze verkiezingen niet te erkennen als president van Iran;
De Iraanse ambassadeur in Nederland te ontbieden;
Het geweld van de Iraanse staat gericht tegen vreedzame burgers streng te veroordelen;
Al het noodzakelijke te doen om met uw collega’s in de EU tot een Europees pakket van diplomatieke maatregelen tegen de illegitieme machthebbers in Iran te komen
ed

zie de complete petitie HIER en teken hem aub.

Hierbij dank ik mijn oude vriend Damon Golriz voor zijn initiatief

In support of Iranian protesters inside Iran

2009-06-14T11:15:00.009+02:00

Something happened in presidential election on Friday 12th June, 2009. Something like a planned coup.
To protest against the Iranian dictatorship there will be a protest in front of the Iranian embassy on sunday 15th June, 2009.
To show unity and a strong will for changing Iran.
Let's be in front of Iranian embassy at 12.00.

gun shots in Tehran June 14th, 2009

Iranian elections

2009-06-10T11:46:00.015+02:00

Young Iranians want change.
And they want to get it through their presidency candidate: Mousavi and his election color: Green

The opposition groups and individuals against the Islamic Republic regime of Iran need to see the facts for once in their life. The truth is that the Iranians' idea for freedom is not to have freedoms and democracy like in developed countries, that is a fairytale to them, which is lovely to hear and dream about but not realizable.
They are "realistic", which means that they want to have underground parties more, want to watch persian romantic movies and not religious movies (during Ahmadinejad the production of the first gave its place to the latter), they want to be able to read some love novels, and be able to have their secret affairs with less fear...
They don't want their dignity be destroyed Internationaly by a crazy little president who does not know the basics of diplomacy, and shouts crazy statements just for his selfexpression. Iranians want their economic wellbeing back at the time of Khatami. If the above is realized they can live with the censorship on newspapers that will be closed again, and the students that are jailed and tortured or even killed in prison.....

Iranians inside Iran need to survive, that is why they will vote for MirHosein Mousavi. Getting around this hard truth will not help us to make a difference. Eventually the people who will bring change are the ones who see the facts without their personal emotions involved and know how to use it to their (Iran's) best interest.

PS. I will be one of the speakers at the symposium of Tilburg University along with Kader Abdullah and Johan ter Haar on June 11th (a day before the Iranian elections).

D66 says YES to EUROPE!

2009-05-27T11:03:00.006+02:00

VOTE D66!
VOTE FOR SOPHIE IN 'T VELD!

The Tatty Teddy story (My girlish side)

2009-02-14T01:00:00.003+01:00

The oldest, smallest house you can imagine was about to be knocked down. All the things that once made the house nice and cozy had been thrown outside and piled up in the front garden, from the soft springy bed the owners slept in, to the old wooden floorboards they used to walk on and even, surely by some mistake, a little brown teddy bear.

He was trapped amongst all the other unwanted things, and couldn’t move. Then, one day, a very cold day, something fell from the sky… a little snowflake.

It landed on the teddy bear’s little nose and then was followed by many more. He began to get cold, very cold indeed. More and more snow fell, heavier and heavier. The little bear was now so cold that his nose started turning blue… so cold that his brown fur started turning grey.

He was cold, unloved and all alone in the world, and felt very, very sad.

Winter finally passed and the weather got warmer. One beautiful spring day, a little girl was playing near the old house, when she spotted the grey bear in the pile of unwanted things. He was like no other bear she had ever seen and she pulled him out from where he was trapped.

She dusted him down and lifted him high in the sky to look at him.

“A grey teddy bear… with a blue nose?” she thought. “How strange!”

The teddy bear wanted to cry. He thought she didn’t like him and would throw him back with the other unwanted things.

“But he’s lovely!” she continued and she fell completely in love with him.

She ran home as fast as her little legs would carry her, to see if her Grandma could patch him up as a lot of his stuffing had fallen out, and he was very much in need of repair.

She looked on as her Grandma replaced his stuffing and patched up his holes. His stitches had started showing where the fur had worn away, but the little girl thought he looked perfect.

It was all cozy and warm in the little girl’s house and the bear felt all cozy and warm in his heart. However, his nose was still blue and his fur was still grey, and they would never return to brown.
He was unique among teddy bears.

The little girl gave him a great big hug. She loved him more than anything else in the world, her little grey, blue-nosed Tatty Teddy.

ABN culture vs. Obama strategy

2009-02-05T23:05:00.003+01:00

How is it possible that ABN, which has been drown out of its debts by the government-money-infusion, can't change its bonus-culture like the way it is going in U.S.?
It's odd... America is the country that is a symbol of rewarding its managers and hardworking CEOs etc. Now, even U.S. is cutting these bonuses from the financial systems that are in trouble and got cash infusions, but our minister of finance (Wouter Bos from the labor party) is still defending the bonus culture in ABN, claiming that these bonuses are just tiny amounts and give more incentive to the individual employee to work...
COME ON, you can't possibly mean than! The bank did a bad job already; it was in trouble and still has huge government debts. Shall we just take U.S as the role model and wait until they pay their debts first before they are rewarded??

And now back home

2009-02-05T10:59:00.005+01:00

My Oh My, the things that can happen in just a few days…
I went to Paris for ONLY a couple of days, for a face 2 face meeting with the National Iranian Congress organizers, and also met my favorite Iranian Economist (Dr. Shahin Fatemi), and then I came back and see that everything has changed here.

Coming back, I found out that the Prime Minister (Jan Peter Balkenende) suddenly has changed course, and was willing to let an independent commission investigate the whole Iraq/ Bush/ Netherlands affair; this while he had keenly resisted the whole idea for month (since December last year).
What was more surprising was that everyone (mostly PVDA – the labor party) was so amazed of this change of course, that they started jumping up and down without taking a good look at the offer.
The questions of the parliament-members are going to be sent to this independent commission which is going to go through a 9 months investigation period to finally give birth to answers behind some closed doors. The parliament members are not going to be able to participate in any hearing, listening to any under oath witnesses (actually there are not going to be any witnesses answering anything under oath!!), they won’t be able to ask any questions directly… In short, they won’t be able to do the things they are elected to do.
The Prime Minister (the Christian Democratic party) is saying that it would be much better if the commission did their job independently, without any political baggage. And afterwards, if the answers were not sufficient for the Parties, then the Parliament may or may not choose to do another investigation transparently, and publically, but that is something that should be decided after the commission is due.
It’s a shame how these parties are just forgetting the basic essences of a democratic country; giving their votes to just waste time.
I think they are taking this the wrong way; it is not important who did what and this is not a matter of blaming this or that party, for a decision made in a different time period. The main issue is to be able to learn the lessons…
Like Alexander Pechtold (Party leader of D66), I think this is going to take just too much time to get to the bottom of things, and by the time (in 10 years from now, when) we do, no-one even cares about US invasion to Iraq, let alone thinking that there are lessons to be learned.
Moreover I also noticed Alexander has changed his haircut!
Come onnnnnnnn, how much change can a lady take at once? Give me a break ;)

National Poet's day

2009-02-05T10:01:00.005+01:00

I was invited to the ruimte-X on 29th January for the National Poet's day, as one of the six honorary guests (3 Campus Poets and 3 City poets of Tilburg).
Of course there were also many other very talented poets who presented some of their poems. And one in particular, Esther Porcelijn, who was a pretty girl, with a very fragile (like her name) structured body, and beautiful erotic poems... I relished her “acte de prèsence”.

De Dood (dutch)

2009-01-29T23:59:00.010+01:00

Ik heb mijn keuze gemaakt

en weet wat me te wachten staat

Ik speel scenario's in mijn hoofd

van de dood,

van de terreur.

Stel me voor dat ik beschoten word

in mijn been, mijn arm, of recht door mijn hart.

Zal ik dan nog blijven leven?

Zal ik mijn ledematen kunnen bewegen?

Zal ik denken dat het best-wel meevalt?

Of zal ik hulpeloos blijven liggen

als het leven mijn lichaam uitholt?

Zal ik in de buurt zijn van een familiaire omgeving?

Of zal ik omringd worden door vreemde gezichten?

Wie zal ik als laatste zien?

En wat zal er zijn in mijn gedachten?

Of zullen ze mij ergens in een smalle steeg

ver uit het oog van ieder, slachten?

Zal ik dagen vermist zijn?

En gemist?

Of maar uren?

Of zal niemand het merken?

Ik zal weer op reis zijn

denken dan de buren.

Dit zijn de dingen waar ik aan denk

de laatste tijd

als je me in de verte ziet turen.

~Fari Naz

P.S. (out of the context) For the short-movie lovers: The last resort of Amin Haghighizadeh is finally out there... Hereby, my support to the young movie director :D

Secret Life

2009-01-28T01:43:00.010+01:00

“She was a very promising agent who showed all the attributes of a very
promising career. She was very well thought of.” said Ephraim Halevy, the former director of Mossad, who for security reasons declined to specify which outfit Ms Livni had served in between 1980 and 1984 [editor. while she was 21-25 years old].

source: Times Online, September 2008

P.S. Jus Ad Bellum...